This was an impulse purchase from a local cigar shop, I was obviously in the mood to buy some pipe tobacco. It smelled good in the jar. The ounce I bought was bone dry as I don't imagine they sell much pipe tobacco. I tried it tonight and found it lacking in most respects. It had somewhat of a unique taste that best I can describe was sort of a nutmeg cinnamon taste with sort of the strange aftertaste of a clove cigarette. The was some bite and sort of an an acid taste as well. I imagine if it had been any more most the bite would have been significant.

Does burn hot. I had to resort to slow sips out of a small cob. Tasty upon initial light up, flattens there after, leading me to "search" for the flavor with partial inhaling thru the nose while exhaling....well, more like pushing the smoke out of one's mouth... you know what I mean. The butter pecan flavor reappeared with this method.Not a bad puff once I followed the learning curve... but proceed with caution! I will try it cut a bit by blending with a little Lane BCA ... (originally wrote "Virginia"...mistake!... do NOT add another hot-tending tobacco!..... but that's not this review. Guardedly recommended. Update: 30 percent or so BCA added helped squelch the flames, but shouldn't need it. still standing by my guarded recommendation....

It was a give and take tobacco. I enjoyed the aroma but it did not transfer into the smoke. It burned very hot. It was a scorching smoke from start to finish, and every time I smoked a new bowl. The tobacco did not mellow after a year, after drying it out it only burned hotter and began to crackle much more frequently. Despite this problem, I really enjoyed the initial puffs of a new bowl. They had a sweet nutty flavor and it worked well with the burly tobacco and it's natural properties. After the first few puffs it just went bland. Despite this bland flavor, it was at least consistent throughout the whole bowl. It being bland was not necessarily all that terrible. However, when expecting sweet butter pecan, a bland burly flavor is not particularly desired. All in all, not necessarily recommended.

Just received this on 10/5/12 and smoked in a Barling Block Meerschaum. This burned so hot I could not hold the pipe at one point and wanted to soak my tongue in ice water. Can't comment on the flavor due to my taste buds being scorched. Perhaps I'll mix in a mild black cavendish to see about taming it down and getting some sense of the flavor. Then again, I may not bother.